Time to catch up for the past few days

What a busy past few days! We traveled all over the place, feasted, danced and swam a lot. I mean a lot. It started to get into typical Santorini heat here and it's been terrible For our past experiment, we have been looking at species diversity on large and small plants of the same size.

We would watch a plant and record the amount of bugs visiting it and then cut almost all of the flowers off of the big plant and out them on the small plants to see if that affected the amount of pollinators that visited. We even saw a turtle the second time we went up to record. 

Yurtle the turtle! And then we went on a terrifying hike up the mountain to visit an abandoned church. I had to become a goat to get up there. The paths were just big enough for a one person to walk at a time, often not even enough room for that.

Here's the side of the church we climbed to.

Conquered the mountain!

While we were there, we climbed into an old, dry cistern. It was huge. 

And Levi and I found a hallway clinging to the side of the cliff and decided to climb into that. It was really cool, with a beautiful view and little rooms off to the side. I even managed to get a giant thorn stuck under my finger nail while I was there.

On Friday, we had a field trip to a couple different archaeological sites, such as Ancient Thira. The buildings were still in great shape, some of them even went through a volcano.

These are from the first site that is on the mountain right behind our hotel. It was very cold and windy though and I forgot to bring my hoodie up with me. The second place got buried by ash and is kept in a building. 

The weekend consisted of feasting, dancing and swimming. And reading 160 pages of Darwin in one sitting. Over all a good weekend. Then yesterday my professor decided it was snorkeling day because it was so hot, so for two hours, I swam with the fishies. Today is data analysis and writing our second lab report! Not so fun.